25% of security professionals say validating whether risks are real wastes the most time in their security team.

26% of security professionals say chasing false positives and low-priority alerts wastes the most time in their security team.

17% of security professionals say manually stitching together data from multiple security tools wastes the most time in their security team.

13% of security professionals say delays waiting for other teams to act on findings wastes the most time in their security team.

AI-powered defenses reduce per-incident phishing handling time by 16% (from 27.5 minutes to 23.2 minutes) and reduce cost per phishing email by 12% (from $31.32 to $27.51).

Nearly 30% of organizations rely on manual device health checks instead of fully automated monitoring systems.

Security teams remediate phishing incidents 16% faster but spend 9% more of their annual hours remediating phishing.

Since 2023, the share of organizations deploying patches within six days has nearly quadrupled, rising from 15% to 59%.

More than 80% of IT and security leaders report AI agents require more manual oversight than they save in efficiency.

91% of security, IT, and compliance professionals must resubmit audit evidence at least sometimes due to miscommunication or shifting auditor expectations.

59% of security and engineering teams still negotiate who is responsible for each fix at enterprises.

39% of CISOs who have partially or fully adopted agentic AI strongly agree it has increased their teams' reporting speed, which is more than double the 18% among CISOs who are still exploring agentic AI.

92% of security professionals say automation reduces their team's mean time to respond.

81% of healthcare organizations believe that integrating cybersecurity into the core business strategy is effective in improving operational efficiencies to deliver better outcomes.